Shape and Form

Shape vs. Form. 

Shape is a 2D aspect of of something, so in photography shape is a silhouette or just an object that doesn't have much light to dark contrast. You can also see shape if you have strongly contrasting colours, for example a bright yellow car on a blue background would highlight the shape of the car as well as showing the form. 

Form is 3D so any real life object in which you can see detail will have a form, form is shown off by the contrast between light and dark of a photo and the gradient between them. So a rock in sunlight in the middle of a desert , the form of the rock would be clear to see.

This photo shows form of an object, it shows the plants and snails natural spiral, these spirals follow the Fibonacci sequence. These are natural shapes and are very smooth and flowing as pose to many man made shapes which are geometric. You can also see form in snail and the shell due to the shadows.

This photo is a very good example of shape as it has the silhouette of a bird in it. This is created because the sun is shining from behind the bird into the camera causing a lack of light on the camera side of the bird. this makes it look 2D and makes you focus on the shape.

This photo shows negative shape created by the buildings of a random shape. It also has the form of the actual buildings created be the converging lines and scars of the building.

My Photos

In this picture i tried to capture all the man made geometric shapes on the stairs showing off the form of the building but also make you notice the simple shapes of the pieces. 

This photo I took from the top down to give it a 2D effect as much as i possibly could, and made it black and white so as to reduce textures, however i don't think it worked amazingly well. but the table looks like a shape surrounded by the forms of the chairs.

I took this specifically of the bottle with a high contrast to pronounce the shape of it as it is an interesting form. I think the lines of where the angles change really help to show it.